Details of visas issued to Pakistani nationals and Bangladeshi nationals by the Indian Missions/Posts in Pakistan and Bangladesh during the last three years and the current year are given below:

           Details of departure of Pakistani and Bangladeshi nationals during 2008, 2009 and 2010, as per information available, are given below:-

Data is year specific. 

             As per information available, 1283 Pakistani nationals remain untraced/missing as on 30^th June, 2011. Intelligence agencies and State Police regularly make efforts to locate the missing Pakistani nationals and arrange to send them back to Pakistan once they are located.  Besides, a number of Pakistani and Bangladeshi nationals, who have entered India on valid travel documents, have been found to be overstaying.  As per information available, 7,691 Pakistani nationals and 32,644 Bangladeshi nationals were found to be overstaying as on 31^st December, 2009. Central Government is vested with powers to deport a foreign national under Section 3(2)(c) of the Foreigners Act 1946. These powers to identify and deport illegally staying foreign nationals have also been delegated to the State Governments/ Union Territory Administrations.  Detection and deportation of such illegal immigrants, including Pakistani and Bangladeshi nationals, is a continuous process.

                   This was stated by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs Shri Mullappally Ramachandran, in written reply to a question  in the Lok Sabha today.

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